On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Keith Addison wrote: > > Most of the debunkings of Gold seem to come from Peak Oil true > believers. Sorry, I'm not saying they're wrong, but a lot of them act > like true believers, and it seems to be impossible to tell who's > right. I'd prefer to keep faith for the ineffable rather than for > such matters as petroleum reserves.
I probably fall into the category of a believer in peak oil (though maybe not a "true believer" :-)). I hate the expression Peak Oil Theory, because the only way it's just a theory is if abiotic oil is valid. Otherwise, obviously, oil must peak, like coal, tungsten, uranium, etc, or anything else one takes out of the ground and doesn't put back. You can argue time frame, but not "theory". Even the Oil Drum, http://www.theoildrum.com/ has some folks who admit that SOME oil may be created abiotically, just not enough to make any difference. I actually have never pursued the arguments for abiotic oil -- the agenda for anyone to suggest it is just too clear: "No problem with oil, folks, nothing to see here, move on....." I wouldn't be surprised if some of the funding for their work has come from TPTB, tho again I haven't researched the details. IMHO, best to assume the worst, and plan accordingly. As others have said, let's hope peak oil (and coal and gas) come soon, for the sake of the global warming aspect if it doesn't. Besides the Oil Drum, I would highly recommend, for anyone who isn't already saturated with the concept of peak oil, any of the writings of Richard Heinberg, Ken Deffeyes, or Colin Campbell, including the latter's Association for the Study of Peak Oil (and gas), also known as ASPO: http://www.peakoil.net/ -Ken Provost -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080304/af815587/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
